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Adultery site emails revel in rival hacks

Ben Hoyle

August 26 2015, 1:01am, The Times

Toronto police said the release of users' data may have led to two suicides so farAP

Senior executives at Ashley Madison, the hacked website for married people who are seeking affairs, revelled in the security flaws of other dating businesses and may even have hacked at least one rival themselves.

Emails released as part of a massive leak of the site’s data, which Toronto police said on Monday may have led to two suicides so far, appeared to show that Noel Biderman, the chief executive, welcomed hacking attacks on competitors as an opportunity to promote Ashley Madison.

His company’s reputation was further damaged when it emerged that in November 2012 Raja Bhatia, the chief technology officer of the site until 2010, emailed Mr Biderman boasting about how easily he had been able to access and manipulate private user data on the…